u/Leading-Fail-7263

Wondering

Something that you can actually write down on paper; not just a general feeling.

So I finally got round to running my first meta ads campaign, which was a reasonable success. One month, $5000 revenue, $2250 gross profit. $1700 on ads, so left with about $550 net profit, which is pretty sad comsidering my revenue is $5000 haha.

I am in a market where I know referalls could be a huge and, oddly, before I was running ads, I actually got a decent number of sales from word of mouth. But it hasn't been so good lately.

Other than asking, how can I create a word of mouth machine? The issue is repeat customer are rare where I'm at, so providing an incentive wouldn't work amazingly well.

Any ideas?

Or does one always have to climb?

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I know nothing outside my subjective reality.

All I know is my perception.

Life gives force to my perception.

All I deam True is through my subjective perception.

What is most True is the basis of my perception, because it is from that which everything is derived.

I would not die for emeprical fact.

Therefore, emperical fact is not the basis of my reality.

I would die for Faith and the people I love.

Therefore, my Faith and love for them is absolutely True.

So, I have a reasonable understanding of complexity but know very little about the algorithms and data structures we have to learn. What would you reccomend doing? They are

• Efficiency and Complexity (O-notation, time complexity)
• Randomised algorithms and avarage case complexity
• Arrays
• Sorting (Divide and Conquer, etc.)
• Linked Lists, Stacks, and Queues
• Trees (AVL-Trees, Heap Trees, etc.)
• Hashing and Hash Tables
• Graph Algorithms

Jung liberates you. Mind is not divorced from matter. All 'reality' -- mythology and physicality -- is talking about You and your essence. Mythological characters are a part of yourself. The vissisitudes of life aren't external; they're a commentary on You. Every subject you study is about You. Because You're part of the collective unconcious, the root driver of perception, the essence of reality. And you're a microcism of it, therefore a microcosm of the universe.

It's all, everything, just You. We experience generality, but it is all fractally located in the specifity of our inner space.

Everything is just the adventure of disovering who You really were all along. Literally everything in external space just something about Your inner space!

I'm only first year so I may genuinely be missing something, but I still really don't get what I am paying the university for other than a certificate. It's been two terms of sitting in a library getting Claude to teach me things. There were the occasional office hours, but they don't amount to more than 10 hours altogether (nor could they amount to anything great in quantity).

What is the direct consumer benefit here? It's genuinely a bit of a mystery.

What am I even meant to do? I wish I could help, but I just don’t see the problem, it’s almost like he’s making it up.

Claude is great at answering questions when you're trying to understand something, but sometimes the answers still don't make sense. And that's where the really good human teachers are magicians: they don't just have the knowledge, they know your brain better than you, and know when to derail your chain of thought when it's not actually optimal for understanding. It's that moment where, if you've ever sat 1 on 1 with someone, they say "Wait a second. We'll get to that. First, understand this". Most of the LLM don't do this by default.

So next time you're asking Claude to help you understand, don't be so sure you're asking the right question, and add this to your prompt:

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I need you to act like a really experienced teacher. You don't only understand the student's questions, but sometimes tell them "you're asking the wrong one. Think of it this way, and then get to that". If that's the case here - just tell me. Don't be afraid to question the chain of thought I'm trying to lay out, if it's is not ideal for understanding. But also, don't ignore it, and go with it if it's optimal.

Instead of spending hours trying to understand something, you'll be de-railed to understand something else first.

I mean this in two senses:

1. Politically
2. If they don’t care about politics, would they care? More for the soft skills, technical knowledge irrelevant.

Beyond "explain this simply". I wonder if anyone has found anything that outputs really good explanations that actually help you understand things that you didn't understand before.

How often should I message them?

Should it always be about selling?

Should I give up on them?

Background: I am 21 in my first year of uni. Doing Computer Science. Most people where I'm at start at 18. Without boasting, I have far more life experience than my peers (not saying I have it all figured out, far from it), having completed military service in my country at war before the degree (in a semi-combat role in the airforce) whilst my parents were in a different country. I lived with my grandparents when off-duty.

Somewhat foolishly, I rushed into university straight after my service. The first semester was totally abysmal, I wasn't able to study at all and finished it clueless. Socially it was good.

The second semester was awful socially but slightly better academically.

I definitely am not utterly intruiged by what we're learning, and it's not my intellectual passion. I am a nerd, but a philosophy one, not a maths one. Still - something about CS does pull me, I'm not quite sure what. But it can also be extremely frustrating to study - and often unclear why I am voluntarily putting myself through all this frustration. I just can't quite figure out with myself if I'm motivated or not, as dumb as that sounds.

Do I:

- stay at the uni and change to something like philosophy, which is far less employable and less rigorous

- keep going and suck it up, not exactly being sure why. Maybe it'll improve, too.

- change uni, because socially things where I'm at are not great (although that problem could repeat itself), and do philosophy

Thank you, and taking all of your replies with a boulder of salt the size of the universe.